The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31
THREE STATES IN BRIEF.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA HAPPENINGS.

from the Ark -Lynching Talked of
in Heard County-Jealo Causes
Cruel Murder in Atlanta,-An Econ
omical Preacher.
GEORGIA
Too much rain for bottom corn around
Lexington.
Oglethorpe county has a few cases of
typhoid fever.
Now and then there is a little railroad
talk in Lexington.
The prohibition ball has been started to
rolling in Floyd county.
Bob Hartsfield makes daily trips from
Crawford to Lexington on bicycle.
The Young Mems Christian Association of
Macon celebrated their anniversary Sunday
Elberton is being stirred up over a war
between the Methodist and Baptist churches.
Prof Samuel P. Snow, of Atlanta, has ac-
cepted the chair of music in the Rome Fee
male College.
Rev. J. j. Cheney, of Union Point has
been elected School Commissioner of Ogle-
thorpe county.
A drunken man is an exception in Talbot
ton; in fact there is comparatively little
whisky drank.
Joe Elder, of Oconee county, has twelve
acres of fine early wheat, from which he ex-
poets to get 300 bushels
The trial of Bill Garvin, the notorious ne
gro murderer, OF Burke county, will begin
in Waynesboro this week.
protracted meeting is in progress at
the Methodist church. Thompson, conducted
by the pastor, Rev. j. t. Lowe.
A freight train on the Central railroad
jumped the track Friday evening near
Smars and delayed travel for several hours
Some of the young men of Blakely are
making an effort to reorganize the Blakely
Brass Band New instruments will be re
quired before this can successfully be done
The Talbotton churches are in excellent
condition spiritually. There have been good
revivals and about twenty five members
added to the Methodist and Baptist
churches.
James Rogers, of Sparta, gathered por-
ton Of his crop of honey on Wednesday,
moving the frames only from the top of his
hives He realized more than fifty gallons
from twenty hives.
Dysentery continues to rage at Woodville,
and Mrs. S. j. Mays died of it last Sunday
Mr.. Thomas Richards is very sick now and
his disease is serious. There are several
cases in that neighborhood.
The last issue of the Franklin Heard
county, Ne1Ds contains some bitter structures
upon Gov. Gordon for respiting the MUIR
derer, John w. Smith, and intimates
strongly that lynching may soon terminate
the respite
Mr.. r. F. billiard, one of oglethorpe's
best farmers, has twenty acres of very fine
upland corn. 1t is nearly waist high and is
all cut by the same pattern. But this is
nothing new for Mr.. billiard, for he always
has his corn crib at home.
A Lexington gentleman said the other
day that he once knew of gang of twenty
geese being turned in on four-acre patch
lof cotton where the grass was higher than
the cotton and as thick as were it q hav field.
nd that in two hours there was not a blade
81 grass standing, yet the cotton was I'M
&Duched.
e A large and vicious-looking spider, nearly
The size of an egg, was killed in an Augusta
over garden the other day, and, in a few
ninutes at least fifty red ants came crawl
hg from his ugly NAV. They seemed none
be worse for their close confinement and
nth the aid of little sunshine, were soon
IS lively as ever.
Scaffolding is now being erected around
The Wrightsville Methodist church steeple,
preparatory to repainting the same, after
which the church building proper will be
repainted on the outside. This work has
been needed for some time, and when fin
ished the church will present a more pleas
Ing and cheerful appearance.
Considerable attention was attracted to
street Saturday morning, for on the inside
were two loggerhead turtles, each as large
as a wash tub They looked as if they were
old enough to have been in the ark, and
their heads were as big as a mans. They
were caught on a cat line set in the Chatta-
hoochee river.
Complaints come from all parts of Ogle-
thorpe county of the prevalence of some un.
known yet fatal nlalady among stock and
cattle. just how it affects them has not
been ascertained. Sheriff Maxwell and Mr..
William Gottheimer, in Lexington, lost a
mule and cow respectively on Friday
night last. The disease, whatever it is does
its work suddenly
A peculiar kind of insect is playing havoc
with the grapes near Lexington. The
punches seem literally alive with Them
They are black and small as mites, and I'M
der the microscope have the form of hce
They seem to cling tenaciously to the young
grape and feed on its vitality. These pests
will ruin the grape crop unless some way is
found to destroy them.
A guano factory in Americas is now an
established fact. All the stock has been
taken and the location bought and tempo
rary officers elected: John NJ. Green. Presi-
dent H. G.. Bagley, Secretary and Treasurer !;
r. N Sans, Manager; Crawford Wheat
ley, Superintendent; Directors, j. M. Green
Samuel Ives, j. w. Wheatley and U. B.
has been let to e. Van Wrinkle & Co, of
Atlanta. The capacity of the works will be
1900 tons, to be increased as demands may
require.
A preacher somewhere in North Georgia
worth $12, 900, says the Macon NetrS, per-
mits his mother to live in the poor house
The church that would fellowship such a
man, the audience that would listen to such
preacher, and the society that would toler-
ate him, deserves to be turned over to the
tender mercies of the Sandwich cannibas:
while the parson himself ought to be sta
TONED in the centre of a ten-acre field, COW
cred knee-deep in powder and red-hot bar
of iron placed in his hands with the right to
hold it or drop it, whichever he preferred
A mule with an artificial throat is the
latest thing in mules in Macon. A valuable
animal at Holman's stables was afflicted
with disease similar to laryngitis. w. G.
Undertake proposed to doctor him and did
so, and saved the mules life Finding that
it would soon be impossible for the animal
TO breathe through his windpipe a portion
of the pipe was removed and silver tube
was inserted, and now the mule breathes
freely. 1t was delicate and s1illful opera
tion. II now remains TO be seen whether
the mule can whinny his thanks to Mr.
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